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The Parkland Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society is hosting a Relay for Life event Friday, June 24.

The Ministry of Tourism, Parks, Culture and Sport announced it is issuing a request for qualifications (RFQ) to introduce an automated online campsite reservation system for the 2012 camping season.

Yorkton Council has approved a tender to proceed with an extension to Kelsey Bay. City Council approved the extension of Kelsey Bay and signalization of a new Broadway Street East intersection in 2010.

Battle: Los Angeles (DVD/Blu-Ray) - Dir. Jonathan Liebesman. Starring Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan. An attempt to cross Independence Day with Starship Troopers and a hell of a lot of shakeycam.

Faye Spaetzel from Sydney, BC called to let the community know that her cousin, Alice Clayton, had passed away at the Mt. Saint Joseph Hospital in Vancouver, BC on May 31st at the age of 89.

The second annual Give the Gift of Life Fun Run & Walk in Yorkton this Saturday will put the spotlight on kidney disease and the plight of Canadians awaiting organ transplants.

With a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 5.0 per cent (well below the national average of 7.4 per cent), Saskatchewan has now had the lowest unemployment rate in Canada for three straight months.

The Saskatchewan government is committed to finding new ways to encourage healthy weights in children and youth through the creation of a Saskatchewan Healthy Weights Framework.

There will be no further cutbacks in the Sunrise Health Region's 2011/2012 operating budget.

With the next Saskatchewan election already set for Nov. 7 this year, Saskatchewan New Democrat leader Dwain Lingenfelter said the campaign has already started.